Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-06-30
THE NEWS.


F. W. Bipper, meat contractor under the
Chicago boodlers, has turned states evidence.
August Berning, of Louisville, shot his wife
and then blew his own brains out Cause ieal-
ousy.
A fifteen million cubic-foot gas well, the fifth
in number, has been opened in South Marion,
Ind.
The business portion of Pullman, Washing
ton territory, was destroyed by fire, Monday;
loss, $4,000.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, of Maine, is suffering
from partial stroke of paralysis; he is eighty
four years old.
The family of H. G. Skilton, of Gallon, o.,
was badly poisoned by eating dried beef None
Of them will die.
J. c. Anderson was arrested at Newark, O.,
on the charge of using the mails to promote a
scheme of chance.
AT the commencement exercises of Harvard
Annex, the degree of Abb was conferred on
five lady graduates.
Ten thousand people were in attendance at
the annual meeting of the Quskers of northern
Indiana at Amboy, Sunday.
The Union Labor Club, of Canton, Ohio, is
composed chiefly of Democrats disgusted with
the Cleveland administration.
Crumb & Baslington, bankers and brokers,
of Cleveland, O., assigned Saturday, with liza
bilities aggregating $6O,OOO.
The Democratic convention of Clarke county
indorsed the Cleveland administration, without
excepting the rebel flag order
Mrs. Noah Ham, of Anderson, Ind, for three
years cripple, is alleged to have been cured
by the faith process, at the ''Woodworth re-
vival'
The peach crop of Delaware is now reported
to be almost failure. There will not be over
100000 baskets, where 5000, 900 were at first
expected.
The B. & o. railroad company has been per-
petually enjoined in the court of Newark, N.
j., from prosecuting its work on the Statan
Island bridge.
General James Speed, Attorney General un-
der President Lincoln, died Saturday at his
home near Crescent Hills, few miles from
Louisville, KY.
Prof. Chas. S. G. Leon, St. Louis corn
doctor, was bitten by large rattlesnake from
which he was trying to extract the fangs. Doc
tors say he will die
The Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas City rail-
way, between Toledo, O., and Frankfort, Ind,
distance of 206 miles, was changed from mar
row to standard gauge Sunday
A clique of railway ticket forgers has been
discovered in Chicago, and two have confessed
Their scheme was to take old tickets and work
them over by means of acids and colored pencils
John Thomas Rose, colored, convicted in
Baltimore of the murder of Emily Brown, white,
whose body was sold by him to the Medical
University, was sentenced Saturday to be
hanged.
Now that E. L. Harper, late of the Fidelity
National Bank, is known by the public to have
been polished rascal, numerous small swindIes
in which he has had a hand are being brought
to light.
Adynamite bomb was placed at the basement
doorway of the residence of DR.. T. E. Buck, in
st. Louis, and exploded. The house was very
much shaken, but no one injured. The reason
for the act is unknown.
Noah Parker has been arrested in Morgan
county, Tenn, charged with the murder of his
wife by throwing her in a well. He was ar
rested upon the confession of woman with |
whom he was intimate that he had said he |
would do it.
There was serious break in the New York |
stock market, Friday, the result of raid, ap-
parently based on the stringent money market. |
1t was serious enough to demand the attention
of the secretary of the U. S. treasury to meas
ureS OF relief TO avoid panic.
President Cleveland has about given up the
idea of visiting st. Louis during the encamp-
ment of the Grand Army OF the Republic, giving
as a reason the hot weather there during Sep
tember. He may visit the city in October,
when the exposition is in operation.
There is strong evidence of the existence of
of an organized gang of Anarchists at Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Yellow fever record at Key West: Total
cases, AZ; total deaths, Is; now sick, IA; dis
charged cured, 10.
Alfred Blunt, the hunchback negro who, in a
ft of jealously murdered his wife, was hanged
At St. Louis Friday.
The safe in the Willoughby (O.) post-ofice
was blown open Sunday night, and between
$500 and $500 taken.
The Civil Service Commissioners have ad-
Tanced the per cent. average for passing exam
nations from 65 to IS.
The immense buildings of the Chicago Pack
ng and Provision Company were destroyed by
ire Sunday; loss 81 ,25O,OOO.
gPresident Cleveland will be the guest of
George W. Childs during his visit to the Con-
Celebration in Philadelphia.
Hon. Freeman Clark, appointed comptroller
If the currency by Lincoln in 1855, died Fri
day, in Rochester, N. Y, at the age of 7S.
David Armstrong, of Jackson, o., has been
appointed by Comptroller Trenholm, receiver
If the Fidelity National Bank, of Cincinnati.
Professors of the Ohio State University are
charged with bulldozing students in order to
educe the attendance and lessen their labors.
Organized efforts are being made to secure
IN attendanca of all colored Dosts of the G. A |